Small photo studio needs config help
We are a small photo studio and we are about to purchase an xSERVE with 4 500GB drives and add drives to the system as time goes on. I need some advice on the best way to set it up and config it.
We will be using the xSERVE RAID attached via fibre to a new G5 Tower which will be connected to a gigbit switch. The switch has 3 computers connected @ gigabit. The xSERVE RAID will store all photography jobs currently in post-production and after post is complete the jobs will move off this system and be archived using another system to save space on the RAID.
3 users (computers) will need to access the RAID to edit the RAW files (15MB/each) jobs and work on photoshop files for retouching. We generate a lot of information and can produce as much as 50 GB / day of shooting. For these jobs we can shoot as many as 7 days in a row, so that would be 350 GB just for the RAW files. We then might retouch 150 files from that job or more depending on the client.
So my main questions would be how to best set up the RAID and different components? I think RAID 5 would be a good solution. But what other setup/config options should I be considering?
I know this is not an easy answer and there are multiple options. But if you could be as kind to give some different options/scenarios, I would greatly appreciate it.
I think its neat that the mac community supports these forums and they have been extremely helpful.
Thank you mac people.
Mac OS X (10.4.7) all computers are running OSX 10.4.7
I like RAID5 for it's ability to tolerate losing a drive without losing data. One thing that you have to account for is that the price for that you pay for surviving a drive failure is 25% of your disk space. In other words, once you take these four drives and make them into a RAID5, you can expect to have ~1.5TB available. So you may want to add a 5th drive. Personally, as cheap as drives are, I'd put the full 7 in.
You really don't have enough client machines to bother with a lot of the esoteric stuff. A simple RAID5 gives you durability and enough speed that the network will be the speed bottleneck.
As you get into these larger filesystems, backups and disaster recovery become much more challenging because of the time it takes to handle massive amounts of data.
Roger
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